What is the atheist right about? To my knowledge the atheists are not making a whole lot of claims. When they do claim that someone’s pet version of a god does not exist is it usually well grounded in evidence and obvious contradiction. (Like: a god existing in no time and no space. Well what in the hell do you call something that exists for no time and in no space? Non-existant, of course.)
What assertions do you hear atheists making? Mostly I hear them asking the question, “How do you know that?” and “What is your evidence for that claim?” When the evidence is not produced then you get the ole, “Why do you believe shit without good evidence?”
So, where is the “Atheist” right? Based on what evidence?
Now when I am playing “Antitheist” I am right based on the 'lack of evidence." It works this way. If you tell me my house is on fire, I run about and look for flames. When I find no flames, I look for smoke, I smell the air, I check inside and outside, I ask you how you know my house is on fire. When you tell me that it is just a feeling you have or that you know my house is on fire from personal experience and there is no observable evidence supporting your claim, I am well within my rights to call you a fucking nutjob. Absence of evidence is evidence when we would expect evidence to be present. Obviously the house is not on fire. There is no fire. All the evidence supports my claim that the fire is non-existant.
The standards are not different. Due to the expansion of the universe, my understanding is that the Earth is in fact the center of the universe, and so is every other point in the universe.